At St. Louis Cathedral in the heart of the French Quarter, a statue of Jesus stood in a tangle of live oak limbs that had crashed to earth in the storm's fury. Two fingers on the statue's outstretched hand were broken by the limbs, but at least some Quarterites found the statue's survival a good omen.

"There are branches all around Jesus and he's left untouched," said Bourbon Street resident Lani Ramos. "It's just amazing."

I've read about this in a few places now. Cries of, "It's a miracle!" "Praise Jesus!"

yo, if "God" sent a category 5 hurricane to your city, buried half of it under 15 feet of water, destroyed your home and everything you worked for your entire life but spared a statue of himself or his "son," how is that either amazing or a miracle?! Seems to me that would just make him a narcissistic, sadistic prick!

That would be incredibly selfish of any deity figure. I'd be like, "What an asshole!" were that the case, considering how many thousands and thousands of homes have been destroyed and dozens of people killed but He saves his son's statue.

one of these days, when I actually decide to update my web site, I'm going to reinstate the code that pulls in the latest entry from LJ dynamically into the site. I disabled that feature some time ago, but I didn't want it pulling every entry onto the site (those with larger pics would totally screw up the formatting). I'm hoping I'll be able to do that by filtering by the tag.

I had to pick something.. thought of "web," "feed," etc. Then just went with "z." :-P

I used php, but from what I remember, there's a fairly easy plug in javascript script that requires no editing. As I recall, the PHP was a little more involved, but I was moving all my pages to php anyway, so I wanted to do everything server-side if possible... but I did it so long ago, I don't remember exactly.